The most critical defining characteristic of a true experiment is often seen to be a high degree of control over the

A. arrangement of experimental conditions.
B. random assignment of participants to experimental conditions.
C. choice of dependent variables.
D. systematic manipulation of independent variables.


B. random assignment of participants to experimental conditions.

Psychology

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